News About Myanmar

Protesters, near Hledan Junction, in Yangon's Kamayut Township hold a sign of support for the recently-formed National Unity Government in April 2021. (Credit: DVB) Regime media reported the arrest of 21 individuals accused of transferring funds to an online platform supporting the opposition National Unity Government (NUG) on Tuesday. Authorities uncovered details on more than 2,700 people alleged to have made donations to an NUG-established fundraising portal called the Peo

The resistance-led Chinland Government has pledged to maintain a firm political alliance with the National League for Democracy (NLD), vowing to fight alongside the deposed ruling party until Myanmar's military dictatorship is overthrown and a federal union is established. In a statement issued on Sept. 27 to mark the NLD’s 38th anniversary, Chin authorities recognized the party’s enduring political leadership throughout the post-2021 Spring Revolution, affirming their commit

A U.S.-based advocacy group has called on the United States government to redesignate Myanmar as a "Country of Particular Concern" (CPC) for severe religious freedom violations, following the military junta’s decision to revoke the marriage licenses of three Baptist pastors. The Burma Research Institute (BRI) accused the regime’s Supreme Court in Naypyidaw of committing grave rights violations by issuing Order No. 254/2026, which stripped the clergymen of their legal authorit

A military airstrike on a village in northern Rakhine (Arakan) State on Sept. 28 injured eight civilians, including a child, as Myanmar’s ruling junta steps up aerial bombardments across the conflict-torn region, according to local residents and rescue workers. A Y-12 utility aircraft originating from the Magway airbase dropped three bombs on Sunye Village in Minbya Township at around 7:00 a.m. The strike injured eight residents aged between 13 and 70. Among the casualties, a

“I could finally breathe again — there was enough money even for meat,” Daw Cho recalls, describing the moment her two-year struggle for survival ended with her daughter’s first remittance payment. Displaced by war in Karen State since 2023, she had lived hand-to-mouth on humanitarian aid and casual jobs in rice and rubber plantations earning a daily wage of 20,000 kyats—less than US$ 5. But when the aid dried up and work shrank to just five days per month, hunger became a da

As desperate communities across southern Myanmar endure severe storms and flooding, the regime has responded not with humanitarian relief, but by significantly accelerating its campaign of violence. In the deep south, record-breaking rainfall since the weekend has submerged over 60 villages in Tanintharyi Region’s Dawei District, leaving at least 13 dead and 30 missing. Yet, rather than easing military operations or providing aid to enable life-saving disaster response, the r